Microsoft Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 117 129
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 12 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.46% 0.47% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.78% 1.95% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £421 £233 £240
25th Percentile £463 £332 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £606 £714 £641
90th Percentile £738 £762 £717
London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -3.15%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 675 462 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.09% 24.32% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 309 315
10th Percentile £405 £363 £378
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.19% -7.30%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £726 £763 £774
London median daily rate £525 £526 £525
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile £19.13 £25.98 -
25th Percentile £27.09 £27.39 £20.22
Median hourly rate £52.22 £29.07 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.64% +38.43% -41.83%
75th Percentile £63.44 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £66.18 £85.50 £37.05
London median hourly rate £54.75 £27.83 £25.00
% change year-on-year +96.77% +11.30% -51.46%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 11 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Certification in Central London

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 11 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -13 10 £508 -11.74% 7
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 £600 -
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) International Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Architect
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Architect
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) BYOD
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
1 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) E-Discovery
4 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (8.33%) Change Control
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Data Governance
5 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) CCNA
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) MCSA
3 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) Firmware
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) EMC
3 1 (8.33%) VMware